Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

by James C. Olson

Includes illustrations and maps. From the book Centered around Red Cloud's career, James C. Olson's admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study is likely to stand as the definitive account of the relations between the Sioux and the U.S. government during the years after the Civil War. Red Cloud's negotiations with various representatives of the Army and the Indian Bureau, and with various friends of the Indians, are treated in detail as is the controversy between the Army and the Indian Bureau over the administration of Indian Affairs." The author was director of the Nebraska State Historical Society, past president of the American Association for State and Local History and also wrote History of Nebraska among others.

Genres: History, Native American History, War, Nonfiction

375 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 1964

About the author

James C. Olson was an American historian, educator and school administrator who served as president of the University of Missouri System from 1976 until 1984. He had been a vice chancellor at the University of Nebraska and chancellor at University of Missouri-Kansas City.